Z9 Second Thoughts

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The battery performance for a camera w/o a grip would be a big step down. While one can always carry spare batteries, they tend to require changing at the most inconvenient moments. ("Look over there, an unobstructed view of Sasquatch! Quick, get a photo of him!".... "I'll have to change my camera battery first.")

What you describe is a failure of Situational Awareness, is is not. While I personally would not own a non-griped camera for my wildlife/birding photography, just changing the battery at the 1/4 or 1/3 charge remaining point solves the above issue for those that want the smaller body.
 
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What you describe is a failure of Situational Awareness, is is not. While I personally would not own a non-griped camera for my wildlife/birding photography, just changing the battery at the 1/4 or 1/3 charge remaining point solves the above issue for those that want the smaller body.
You could attribute any failure like this to a lack of SA. But camera battery performance can be finicky. While a camera may give repeatable measures of performance, such as near-linear battery discharge along large parts of the power curve, it can also perform in a much different way in different circumstances. I've had batteries go from 100% to 75% of charge over 500 images, only to go from 75% to 50% (or less) over the next 100 images under the same conditions, or completely fail to power camera and lens functions at 50%, or more, power level. However, this is not to say that the same thing couldn't occur with the higher capacity battery of a grip/gripped camera.
 
What you describe is a failure of Situational Awareness, is is not. While I personally would not own a non-griped camera for my wildlife/birding photography, just changing the battery at the 1/4 or 1/3 charge remaining point solves the above issue for those that want the smaller body.

i think it depends. i suspect the en-el15c would probably not give any reasonable runtime matched up with the electronic systems of the z9.
 
What you describe is a failure of Situational Awareness, is [it] not. While I personally would not own a non-griped camera for my wildlife/birding photography, just changing the battery at the 1/4 or 1/3 charge remaining point solves the above issue for those that want the smaller body.

I typically change battery when the charge drops below 20%. The remaining charge is shown in the a1's viewfinder. Sasquatch photos, no, not yet, but I haven't missed any photos due to a wimpy battery. No grip for me.
 
I typically change battery when the charge drops below 20%. The remaining charge is shown in the a1's viewfinder. Sasquatch photos, no, not yet, but I haven't missed any photos due to a wimpy battery. No grip for me.
Same goes for me. The A1 gripless + 200- 600 feels like D 500 with 500 PF . I carry 4 batteries including one in the camera & I have never felt the need for the grip . During safaris I normallly shoot 100 to 150 GB in one session with 1 battery being suffice
 
Recently I have visited my friend (retired pro having nature photography as full time hobby now) who has got his (first) Z9 a couple of days before I arrived. He is somebody who is really careful and pretty conservative if it comes to new things, until they haven proven to be o.k. Within the days we spent together it was all over. He'll never ever give this thing away again and I am infected, too. If I didn't have the problem with my business going down I 'd probably spend most of the money I got for trading my motorbike to bay a Z9 straight away. When we went out for a morning - he with a Z9 + 500f4E via FTZ and me with a D850 + 500 f4G - we swapped gear just for fun. Man, he had a really hard time to get his combo back :D .

Go and get it !
 
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